Sonic Returns

Chapter 4- montage

Following their hard-won victory, the pair went home to rest and celebrate the capture of their first chaos emerald. This was done with large amounts of Chili dogs and root beer, accompanied by a marathon of Vin Diesel and Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. Tails, who had never been exposed to earth culture before, of course had a million comments and questions.

"That Vin Diesel guy... he sure likes using guns a lot." The fox commented. "Why doesn't he just spin dash the bad guy?"

"Humans can't do that move, Tails." Sonic replied, reaching into their shared tub of buttered popcorn. "Heck, most mobians can't do that, either."

Over the next several days, the two-tailed fox tried to adjust to living on earth. Tails was confused by what Tom's pet golden retriever was doing in the house.

"Sonic, why do the humans keep this unintelligent domesticated canine in the house?" The fox asked, as he and Ozzy stared at each other. "Are they raising it for food?"

"He's a pet, Tails." Sonic explained, shaking his head. "Doughnut lord keeps him as a companion."

"Oh, like we keep chao as pets?" The fox asked, petting the dog as it began licking him.

"Er... something like that." The blue blur shrugged.

The people in town quickly came to accept the little fox as a friend of Sonic's, and were happy to have them around. The mechanics at the local auto garage welcomed his help fixing cars, while the appliance store employees loved having him repair all of their broken gadgets. Tails even managed to make friends with Crazy Carl, who often spent a lot of time with the mobian talking about his crazy conspiracy theories.

"I'm so happy we became friends, instead of me catching you!" Crazy Carl exclaimed, as the two sat on the steps of his farmhouse. "So, you and your blue devil friend... do you fly around on your home planet in your space ships?"

"Nahhh, we prefer using extreme gear." Tails replied, smiling. "Hover technology is so much more efficient than any spaceship."

Carl liked his new little vulpine friend so much, he showed him a rusty old biplane, covered up in his barn with a tarp.

"This old girl is called the Tornado, and she dates back to the great war." Crazy Carl explained, as the fox stared at the old rust bucket in wonder. "My pa bought it used yeas ago, to dust crops in the fields."

"She's beautiful!" Tails whispered in awe. "I would love to fix this old girl up, and make her new again!"

"You like to tinker, just like my old man, eh?" Crazy Carl burst out laughing. "If you can get her working again, lad, she's all yours!"

At the same time, Sonic and Tails were going back and forth mobius, searching the zones for more of the Chaos emeralds. In the dingy old iron and steel factories of the Springyard zone, the pair of mobians avoided the claws of crabmeat badniks. Among the crumbling ancient ruins of the marble zone, Sonic and Tails battled leaping Caterkillers, avoided subterranean lava waterfalls, and dodged the falling spiked chain traps the ancients set to guard their tombs. And in the shifting deserts of sand ocean zone, the duo spilled and slid on the oil past the seahorse-like aquis and octopus-like octus badniks. Sometimes Sonic and Tails reached the emerald the badniks got to it, other times Eggman's robots reached the emerald first, and attained victory. It wasn't long before the mobians had recovered two of the gems, while Dr. Ivo Robotnik had obtained three. But even though he was ahead in the game, the mad scientist wasn't happy.

"GAHHHHH! This is infuriating!" Dr. Robotnik raged, slamming his fist into the computer monitor. "How did that hedgehog manage to get two of those chaos emeralds! I can't believe those two impudent fools managed to defeat my army of beloved badniks!"